Collection Description

Global Ecumenical Mission Studies

This Globethics.net collection gathers interdisciplinary studies and research work from all continents, mainly on the history and theology of Christian missions, the mission of the Church, historical and contemporary theological, anthropological, (cross-) cultural, socio-political aspects, (inter-) religious and interdenominational perspectives and developments (trends) of missionary praxis and theory in local, regional and global contexts of Church history, the modern ecumenical movement and world Christianity.

FF5 Institutional documents (by denominations and church families) FF50 World Council of Churches (WCC) [Statements on Mission] FF501 Mission and Evangelism - An Ecumenical Affirmation (1982) FF502 Together towards life-Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes (2012)

FF509 Regional Ecumenical Organizations

FF5091 All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) FF5092 Conference of European Churches (CEC) FF5093 Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias (CLAI) FF5094 Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) FF5095 Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) FF5096 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) FF5097 Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) FF5099 Other

In recent years the testimonial legacy of Juan Jacobo Baegert, well-know Jesuit missionary of German origin with a long experience in the California Peninsula, has become a privileged source to the et...

Leaving home to become a missionary is important for many young adults in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (CJC). Some missionaries return home from their missions before their anticipa...

This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary disco...